The visiting LNG carrier is on a multi-month charter to Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T), which has bought the 1.2-million-tonnes-per-annum output from the first two of the Hilli Episeyo’s four production trains.

Dynagas’ 150,000-cbm Clean Energy (built 2007) goes on charter to GM&T to lift its Cameroon floater shipments later this year.

As TradeWinds went to press, the 138,000-cbm Galicia Spirit (built 2004) had returned to the Hilli Episeyo to resume its loading of the first commercial cargo from the unit.

The No 3 tank on the Galicia Spirit was loaded between 30 April and 1 May as the first step in a two-part operation.

The vessel was due to leave this week for China with its historic shipment, which is understood to have been sold to PetroChina.

New York-listed Golar LNG, which is set to announce its first-quarter results on 31 May, has yet to comment on the first cargo loading from its pioneering LNG carrier-to-FLNG-unit conversion.

The Iain Ross-led company wants to achieve full commercial acceptance of what is the world's first LNG carrier-to-FLNG conversion from the floater’s charterers — Perenco and Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures — to boost its earnings.

But it is also keen to show that its FLNG conversion concept works as it continues to pursue the currently Ophir Energy-led Fortuna LNG project in Equatorial Guinea and BP’s Tortue development off Mauritania and Senegal.

London and Oslo-based Golar LNG plans to convert its laid-up LNG carriers — the 126,000-cbm Gandria (built 1977) and 126,277-cbm Gimi (built 1976) — for these two yet-to-be sanctioned projects.

The visiting LNG carrier is on a multi-month charter to Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T), which has bought the 1.2-million-tonnes-per-annum output from the first two of the Hilli Episeyo’s four production trains.

Dynagas’ 150,000-cbm Clean Energy (built 2007) goes on charter to GM&T to lift its Cameroon floater shipments later this year.

As TradeWinds went to press, the 138,000-cbm Galicia Spirit (built 2004) had returned to the Hilli Episeyo to resume its loading of the first commercial cargo from the unit.

The No 3 tank on the Galicia Spirit was loaded between 30 April and 1 May as the first step in a two-part operation.

The vessel was due to leave this week for China with its historic shipment, which is understood to have been sold to PetroChina.

New York-listed Golar LNG, which is set to announce its first-quarter results on 31 May, has yet to comment on the first cargo loading from its pioneering LNG carrier-to-FLNG-unit conversion.

The Iain Ross-led company wants to achieve full commercial acceptance of what is the world's first LNG carrier-to-FLNG conversion from the floater’s charterers — Perenco and Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures — to boost its earnings.

But it is also keen to show that its FLNG conversion concept works as it continues to pursue the currently Ophir Energy-led Fortuna LNG project in Equatorial Guinea and BP’s Tortue development off Mauritania and Senegal.

London and Oslo-based Golar LNG plans to convert its laid-up LNG carriers — the 126,000-cbm Gandria (built 1977) and 126,277-cbm Gimi (built 1976) — for these two yet-to-be sanctioned projects.